NC Health Insurance Law
Lawmakers in North Carolina recently acted on health care legislation.
North Carolina Senate approves a bill requiring health insurance providers in North Carolina to provide the same level of health insurance coverage for treatment of severe depression, schizophrenia or other mental illnesses as they do for physical illnesses, the Winston-Salem Journal reports.
North Carolina Health Insurance
The bill would apply to all state businesses, regardless of the number of employees, and require full coverage for nine of the most common mental illnesses.
Health insurance providers in North Carolina would be able to place restrictions on health insurance coverage of other mental illnesses, such as autism and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. The legislation would not apply to companies that are self-insured. The North Carolina health insurance bill now goes to the state House, which already has approved its own version of mental health parity legislation (Romoser, Winston-Salem Journal, 7/4).
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